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Show Learning to Fly Sky Pups The V. S. Balloon Barrage Training Center at Camp Tyson, Tenn., provides the training necessary for the handling, sailing and repairing of the huge bags which are flown as an aerial stockade against attacking bombers. These balloons are flown in critical areas to prevent enemy aircraft from bombing at low altitudes and can be raised to great heights in a few minutes. sesatsan ' " ' v ' Alarm! Balloons aloft! At this command, squads of balloon men rush to their posts as pictured here. Frank O. Higgins, left, and his father, Andrew Jackson Higgins,' shipbuilder, in WashBurial with full military honors at the National cemetery in Hampton, New Orleans for a conference with Presiington 29 to was of crewmen accorded Nazi a was which submarine sunk dent Roosevelt. Va., Higgins, whose by an American destroyer following a running fight. The bodies of the contract for Liberty cargo ships 29 Germans were recovered and brought to the naval operating base was cancelled, wants to build seven-to- n at Norfolk. flying boats. Hull Discusses Postwar Plans A stitch in time. As tedious a job as peeling spuds is sewing up Here is shown the motor-drive- n the rip in a balloon fabric. Here Mrs. Elizabeth Dilling, author of which winds and unwinds Sgt. Albert' Kabrielian is shown winch she as The delivered he apRed as in shown is Hull Network, of Cordell State Washington Secretary his speech on current war issues. The secretarys speech dealt with peared before federal officials in the steel cable controlling the flight sewing miles and miles of seams (or so it seems to him). causes and issues of the war, with postwar objectives and with the Chicago in answer to an indictment of the balloon. to to the attack the world rebroadcast was The conspiracy charging war situation. critical speech present morale of U. S. armed forces. in 11 different languages. WAAC Members Welcomed to Army Flying Tiger George Burgard of Sunbury, Pa., former Flying Tiger, displays a Sumarai sword taken from a Jap n receive WAAC uniforms are welcomed into the victim. Burgard, now visiting in MiDes at Fort Moines, D0J1 c. Faith, commandant of the post 12 enemy planes in to bagged ami, bA total of 25,000 women will be trained at thecamp-enou- gh while he was a membfcr of Burma eomh ,cttn divide" the American volunteer group. equivalent oi director of the WAAL. cj Oveta Culp Hobby is . Private instructor Rob- ert Kehr teaches the cord- age class how to make a 'monkey fisf a knot used in the rigging of a balloon. |